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• Interest in the 10 acres on the southeast little area to get lunch or to go to a dry <br /> corner of Weaver Dairy Road and N.C. cleaners, it would be good. <br /> 86. Presently this land consists of seven <br /> different properties, and it is zoned Office • Concerned about the residential 1 <br /> Institutional /Mixed Use. The Mixed Use unit/acre area north of the employment <br /> zoning category has a 20 acre threshold, campus. The cost of extending water and <br /> and therefore, it does not work for these sewer to this area will be expensive, and <br /> 10 acres. it will promote high-end housing. <br /> Furthermore, if the lots develop as seven • Need to be careful to not be too limiting <br /> separate properties, there could be seven with regard to the transportation corridor. <br /> different points of access. Wants Work Make it wider as part of the plan. We can <br /> Group to consider commercial zoning always decrease the width,later if it is not <br /> much like the East Franklin Street Corridor needed. <br /> Study. The need exists for service- <br /> oriented uses. Suggests a conditional • Land owner off Homestead Road has 4 <br /> commercial zoning that would force farm ponds (varying from 3-8 feet deep) <br /> developers to apply for a specific use. that are located in close proximity to the <br /> rail line. The dam on one of the ponds is <br /> • Concern that zoning keeps getting about 50 feet from the railroad, and it <br /> changed all the time. drains to another pond on the other side <br /> of the railroad. <br /> • No development will occur in this area <br /> until water and sewer are available. There is also another pond at the end of <br /> Weaver Dairy Road should be extended to Billabong Lane. These ponds need to be <br /> Eubanks Road. The Town has given the shown on the maps. Commends the <br /> sewer system away to OWASA, and this is Work Group for their efforts. He has seen <br /> the worst thing that the community has considerable improvement on the plan <br /> ever done. Water and sewer are so through the three neighborhood meetings. <br /> expensive that it is too costly to develop. <br /> Also, blasting from the landfill could • What are the plans to improve the bus <br /> damage the water supply and pollute system? The bus system has not grown <br /> wells. with the Town, and the bus system is <br /> inadequate. Chapel Hill needs an <br /> • Where does the idea of an employment integrated bus system joined with other <br /> center come from? What about the cities in the region so that you can get <br /> existing traffic bottleneck at N.C. 86 and from Hillsborough to Chapel Hill to <br /> Eubanks Road? Durham. <br /> • Regarding the use of the Greene tract for (Judy Johnson, Town Transportation <br /> affordable housing, what is the Planner, gave an update on the Triangle <br /> relationship of the affordable housing to Transit Authority's (TTA) fixed guideway <br /> the park? corridor study. She also explained that <br /> the Town seeks to expand bus service as <br /> The employment campus has the potential development occurs. In particular, the <br /> for lots of employment. If there was a Eubanks Park and Ride lot will start bus <br /> service once the lot is competed.) <br /> Northwest Small Area Plan Page A-29 <br />